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The second installment of The CW’s “The Carrie Diaries” entitled “Lie With Me,” feels much more like a prequel to “Sex and the City” than last week’s premiere. That said Carrie Bradshaw and Connecticut just don’t mix. For that matter, Carrie Bradshaw at age 16, not wanting to drink or watch a bootlegged copy of “Purple Rain” high on pot is just plain uncomfortable to watch. Frankly, Carrie’s bitchy, weed smoking, younger sister with a soft side – Dorrit – is a much more interesting character at this point in the series.

But young Carrie is still fun to watch. Via her law firm internship and that ugly patent leather purse that she managed to make uglier by writing her name across, she is making her mark in the fashion industry. (Blame it on bad 1980’s style.) Meanwhile, back in the burbs, Sebastian – a.k.a. the Cheshire Cat of Castlebury – is making his interest in Carrie known. But Donna, a.k.a. Castlebury’s popular b—-, isn’t having any of it. Let’s just say Donna is acting like a 16 year-old without puberty issues and putting the moves on Sebastian — big time — even at the local Country Club. Read More »

Via the networks new series - “The Carrie Diaries” fans of “Sex and the City” learn that at the tender age of 16, Carrie (AnnaSophia Robb) lost her mother. That left her with a caring father (why the future daddy issues?), a bitchy, pot smoking, younger sister (where the hell did she disappear to in the 1990s?) and a lot of teenage angst. Read More »

Josh Schwartz, the television producer behind “Chuck,” which ran on NBC for five seasons, and such CW stalwarts as “Gossip Girl” and “Hart of Dixie,” knows his way around a coming-of-age story.

“It’s incredibly fertile ground,” says Schwartz, who created “The O.C.” at 26. (He is now 36). “Everything feels so life and death. I love telling stories about adolescence, but hopefully in a way that doesn’t just feel limited to that audience.” Read More »

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